Anonymous, Occupy Movement Announce 'Occupy the Vote' Campaign

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"Hold elected officials accountable" is the rallying cry of "Our
Polls — Occupy the Vote 2012," a new activism campaign
kicked off today (Feb. 27) by the Anonymous hackers and their
Occupy movement brethren.

The goal of the joint effort is to unseat politicians in this
year's elections who support the Stop Online Piracy
Act (SOPA) and the Protect IP Act (PIPA), the controversial
agreements that many fear, if passed, would effectively
break the Internet by restricting access to websites that
host copyrighted materials.

Our Polls also focuses its energy on the National Defense
Authorization Act (NDAA), a bill whose provisions allow for the
indefinite detention of suspected terrorists. President Barack
Obama signed the bill on Dec. 31, but admitted he had "serious
reservations" with these provisions.

In its mission
statement, the Our Polls authors say the NDAA is "a
prominent threat to the inalienable due process rights of every
US citizen as laid out in the constitution. It allows the
military to engage in civilian law enforcement, and to suspend
due process, habeas corpus or other constitutional guarantees
when desired. Our congressmen passed one of the greatest threats
to civil liberties in the history of the United States."

Then comes the movement's central question: "Will we hold them
accountable on election day?"

With the motto "Elections Not Auctions," the Our Polls movement
calls on voters and supporting parties to "unite as a single
force to unseat the elected representatives who threaten our
essential freedoms and who were so quick to minimize our
individual constitutional rights for a quick corporate profit."

To help guide its supporters in advance of the elections, the
groups include lists of all U.S. Senators and Representatives up
for reelection that supported NDAA and/or PIPA and SOPA.